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United  States  Department  of  Agriculture, 


(B.  A.  I.  Okt.kk  1CJ.) 


BUREAU    OF    ANIMAL    INDUSTRY. 


REVOCATION  OF  REGULATIONS  CONCERNING  THE  IMPORTATION  OF 
HAY  AND  STRAW  FROM  THE  ISLAND  OF  JAMAICA,  BRITISH  WEST 
INDIES. 


U.  S.  Department  of  Agriculture, 

Office  of  the  Secretary, 
Washington,  D.  C,  May  25,  1909. 

Under  the  authority  of  the  act  of  Congress  entitled  "An  act  to  enable 
the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  to  more  effectually  suppress  and  prevent 
the  spread  of  contagious  and  infectious  diseases  of  live  stock,  and  for 
other  purposes,"  approved  February  2,  1903,  and  to  prevent  the  intro- 
duction of  the  contagion  of  anthrax,  pleuro-pneumonia,  or  foot-and- 
mouth  disease,  a  regulation,  designated  as  B.  A.  I.  Order  159,  was 
issued  on  March  23, 1909.  It  provided  that  all  hay  or  straw,  the  product 
of  the  island  of  Jamaica,  British  West  Indies,  or  which  had  been  trans- 
ported through  said  island,  should  be  disinfected  as  might  be  prescribed 
by  the  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Animal  Industry,  at  the  expense  of  the 
importer,  before  being  unloaded  from  the  vessel  bringing  it  into  any 
port  of  the  United  States,  and  when  unloaded  and  landed  it  should  be 
stored  and  held  in  quarantine  for  a  period  of  not  less  than  three  months 
in  some  place  acceptable  to  the  Chief  of  the  Bureau  of  Animal  Industry 
and  under  conditions  prescribed  by  him. 

The  necessity  for  the  measures  required  in  the  regulation,  designated 
as  B.  A.  I.  Order  159,  having  passed,  the  said  regulation  so  designated 
is  hereby  canceled,  such  cancellation  to  take  effect  from  June  1,  1909. 

James  Wilson, 
Secretary  of  Agriculture. 


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